Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (Resumed)
Higher Education Authority - Annual Financial Statements 2011: Discussion

11:10 am

Mr. Tom Boland:

If I may make one point. I have not spoken to Deloitte & Touche but one of the points that was made in their report, as I recall, is the speed at which they carried out the particular piece of work. They regarded it as a preliminary - I will not say, quick and dirty - but rather a preliminary review of the expenditure and done under pressure of time and that this may or may not explain this issue.